Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instant and stunning. Barbra's only previous acting experience on Broadway was a 20-minute role as a marriage-proof secretary in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, though her plaintive song called Miss Marmelstein was the only bargain in an evening that was otherwise strictly retail. Many people still say Who when they hear her name, but she is not from nowhere. She is only 21, but she has made an occasional $7,000 a week singing at places like Las Vegas' Riviera and $3,000 at Manhattan's Basin Street East. Her three albums...
...Clocked. And so the talkfest continued - but by no means all of the time wasting had been done by Southern Democrats. Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger gave a speech on "Cigarettes -Tried and Found Guilty." Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey lauded "20 consecutive years of membership growth" of the Retail Clerks International Association. Montana Democrat Lee Metcalf complained about the Montana Power Co.'s electric rates. South Dakota Republican Karl Mundt fretted about trade with Communist Poland, and Kansas Republican Frank Carlson worried about the cattle farmers' plight...
...vote came over the embattled Resale Price Maintenance bill, sponsored by Heath with the purpose of abolishing retail price fixing, which enables manufacturers to set the consumer price of their products. Heath argues that his measure will both encourage competition and cut consumer costs. A group of rebellious Tory backbenchers retort that small shopkeepers can only compete with chain stores by keeping their prices at the artificially high RPM levels. The backbenchers are less concerned with free enterprise and modernizing the British economy than with the votes of the 500,000 small shopkeepers who are registered Tories; many...
...just about every onetime planemaker but Lockheed has dropped the old "aircraft" from its corporate title to reflect involvement in the wilder blue of aerospace. Seeking to show a more suitable face to the public, Hardware Mutual Insurance, which was founded 60 years ago by members of the Wisconsin Retail Hardware Association, recently chose to become Sentry Insurance. Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Co. juggled 200 names and picked Stanray Corp. when it added an aviation equipment division...
...Retail Sales² $ 35.3 bill $ 37.6 bill...